How to Protect Wood Floors on Moving Day

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How to Protect Wood Floors on Moving Day

Protecting wood floors on moving day is going to require you to lay down a very specific type of material. Protect wood floors on moving day with help from a longtime construction professional in this free video clip.

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Hi. This is Nicholas Iarocci, the Home Source Guy, president and owner of Source Development Inc. a residential and commercial construction company in Garnerville, New York and this is how to protect your hardwood floors on moving day. Now you don't have to be moving, you could be remodeling, moving appliances or furniture in your house and you want to protect the hardwood floors. They're not made to get items across it. So the first thing you do is set up a barrier for dust. So you want to do that by taping building paper, plastic or cardboard across the floor. Tape the seams and tape it down to the floor. You want to follow that up by hardwood, hardwood which is a thin panel. You want to do the same thing, make sure you tape the seams with duct tape. You don't want to start dragging something across or rolling something across and the hardwood panels separate and scratch your floors. So it's really important that you tape these hardwood panels together. Create a path to where you're working and that should help you alleviate a lot of the problems. This is the Home Source Guy, helping you build a better life and we'll see you next time.